Rodolphe Bresdin

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Rodolphe Bresdin
1822-1885
Flemish Interior
1857
Pen and black ink on paper.
8 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches (206 x 232 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Arthur G. Cohen in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Morgan Library and the 50th anniversary of the Association of Fellows, and as the gift of Hamilton Robinson, Jr., and Mrs. John Hay Whitney.
2000.31
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Signed in pen and black ink in script and dated at lower center, "Bresdin Rodolphe 1857".

Provenance: 
Claude Roger-Marx; Ian Woodner Family Collection, New York.
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Watermark: none.
This sheet by the printmaker and draftsman Bresdin is related to a print of the same title dated 1856 in the first state, and to an undated drawing in the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass. (inv. 1959:3).

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Roger-Marx, Claude, 1888-1977, former owner.
Woodner, Ian, former owner.
Cohen, Arthur G., Mrs., donor.
Robinson, Hamilton, donor.
Whitney, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, 1908-1998, donor.

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